Talk:Religion and schizophrenia

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Religion as a trigger for schizophrenia
This part appears less substantiated. More evidence exists showing that experiences during psychotic and delirium episodes are also shaped by one's beliefs and fears (and there's a section about this). This means that someone believing in demons may indeed be more likely to fear being possessed, that those who believe in psychotronic waves and conspiracy theories are likely to believe they are being harrassed and targetted, those who believe in alien abductions may live experiences related to that, etc. Religious culture/literature may have been influenced by psychotic episodes (and sometimes entheogen use in some traditions). Where entheogen use is part of religious practice, it could be a trigger for the onset in someone who has the genetic predisposition (it's easy to find sources about drugs as a potential trigger). It's easier to find sources criticizing religion as promoting irrational beliefs than as being a trigger for schizophrenia. On the other hand, statistics exist showing a higher proportion of psychiatric cases in high control groups than in the general population and studies on the detrimental effects of high control groups also exist (friction vs adaptation to society caused by segregation and fringe beliefs, more unreported child abuse, etc). This is from memory so far, I'd need to search to find relevant sources while taking care to avoid OR/SYNTH... — Paleo Neonate  – 00:28, 7 October 2017 (UTC)


 * My personal experience of being diagnosed with schizophrenia may be relevant to this discussion. I have religious / supernatural beliefs and then developed psychosis (hearing voices), which seemed supernatural / spiritual to me. I've documented my experience here: https://cloudgazer.wixsite.com/schizophrenia/post/descent-into-psychosis 124.150.87.199 (talk) 09:31, 2 April 2023 (UTC)